Events

• Conrad III establishes the Hohenstaufen dynasty when he is crowned antiking to the Holy Roman Emperor, Lothair II.

• The first coalition of the Norman princes against Roger II of Sicily is formed.

• The minaret of Kalyan is completed in Bukhara (present day Uzbekistan).

• Jurchen forces sack the Song Chinese capital of Kaifeng (the Jingkang Incident, 靖康事變), and begin more than a century of political division between northern and southern China.

• Count Charles the Good of Flanders is assassinated.

• Estimation: Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Kaifeng, capital of China.

Births

• October 18—Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1191)

• November 27—Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)

• Constance of Antioch (d. 1163), the Princess regnant of the principality of Antioch

• Yang Wanli, Chinese poet (d. 1206)

Deaths

• Fulcher of Chartres, French chronicler